Deconstructing Morphology

Word Formation in Syntactic Theory

By: Rochelle Lieber

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Hardcover | 1 May 1992 | Edition Number 1

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One of the major contributions to theoretical linguistics during the twentieth century has been an advancement of our understanding that the information-bearing units which make up human language are organized on a hierarchy of levels. It has been an overarching goal of research since the 1930s to determine the precise nature of those levels and what principles guide interactions among them.
Linguists have typically posited phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels, each with its own distinct vocabulary and organizing principles, but in "Deconstructing Morphology" Rochelle Lieber persuasively challenges the existence of a morphological level of language. Her argument, that rules and vocabulary claimed to belong to the morphological level in fact belong to the levels of syntax and phonology, follows the work of Sproat, Toman, and others. Her study, however, is the first to draw jointly on Chomsky's Government-Binding Theory of syntax and on recent research in phonology.
Ranging broadly over data from many languages--including Tagalog, English, French, and Dutch--"Deconstructing Morphology" addresses key questions in current morphological and phonological research and provides an innovative view of the overall architecture of grammar.

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Preface
List of Abbreviations Prologue: On Productivity
The Interface between Morphology and Syntax
Head Theory and Principles of Construction
Development of the Theories of Phrase Structure and Word Structure
Revised Principles of X-bar Theory
Tagalog Phrase and Word Structure
English Phrase and Word Structure
Comparison: English, French, Dutch
French
Dutch
Conclusions
Feature Percolation and Inheritance
Previous Treatments of Percolation
What Features Percolate
Diacritics
Argument Structures
The Categorial Signature
Head and Backup Percolation
Multiply Marked Features
A Case Study: P/N Marking in Vogul
Ramifications
Inflection vs. Derivation
V Movement to Infl Analyses
Inheritance
Conclusions
Binding, Barriers, and X0
Binding below Word Level
Sublexical Indexing
Binding Theory and Anaphoric Islands
Binding below X0: A Closer Look at the Data
Sublexical Anaphors
Permissive vs. Nonpermissive Dialects
Move Alpha, Barriers, and X0
Movement into Words
Movement Out of Words
Movement of Morphemes within Words
ECP and Bracketing Paradoxes
The Lexicalist Hypothesis and the Notion of Lexical Integrity
Beyond Affixation and Compounding
Circumfixation
Conversion
Mutation and Umlaut
Consonant Mutation
Umlaut
Reduplication
Reduplication as Affixation
Quantity Sensitive Reduplication and the Parafixation Analysis
Against Head Operations: Affixation to Prosodic Structure
Templatic Morphology and the Morphemic Plane Hypothesis
Conclusion
The Interface with Phonology
Notes
References
Author Index
Language Index
Subject Index
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